SPRINGBOARD FELLOWSHIP
Our Fellowship program is designed to provide equitable support explicitly to BIPOC Choreographers.
THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Amidst the 2020 cancellations, we devoted our season to identifying critical areas throughout our infrastructure and practices where we could do more to serve Black, Indigenous, and people of color within our community, and acknowledge the difficulties that disproportionately affect dance artists whose identities have been marginalized. Invigorated by the feedback from our alumni, and in conversations with our staff, advisors and boards, we continue to identify more tangible ways to implement our guiding values and establish additional short and long-term goals. Leading with integrity, creativity, equity, diversity, inclusion, and mentorship, the Fellowship Program is just one of the many steps we have committed to take in an effort to move contemporary dance forward.
Springboard’s Fellowship Program is designed to provide support, residency, financial, marketing, and mentoring resources within our global network to BIPOC choreographers. The program supports the artists’ practices as part of the Springboard Emerging Choreographers Program, and strives to uplift the Fellow’s artistic endeavors throughout their Fellowship year and beyond.
HOW ARE THESE ARTISTS CURATED?
Springboard’s family reaches far and wide. We reach out to our extended web of choreographers, performers, curators, company directors, company managers, nonprofit and foundation directors, mentors, and talent agencies to understand whose trajectory may be most harmonious with and supported by our programs offerings. We seek career choreographers with 5+ years of experience, striking creative capacity, and those who would not otherwise be able to participate in our Emerging or Resident Choreographers Programs without tangible assistance.
In harmony with Springboard’s guiding values of integrity, creativity, equity, diversity, inclusion, and mentorship, Springboard believes that the contemporary dance community disproportionately favors the experiences, perspectives, and aesthetics of those from privileged backgrounds, leaving many stories untold and unwitnessed. We are committed to unravelling these many layers from our unique positionality in the field, both inside and outside the organization.
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Photos (top to bottom):
2019 SBDM_Principal Choreographer, Ohad Naharin_©Michael Slobodian
2017 SBDM_Principal Choreographer, Aszure Barton_©Michael Slobodian
2018 SBDM_Emerging and Resident Showing_©David Gonsier